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The Election.

Meanness.
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    We would like to see a greater condemnation of villainy produced anywhere, than that exemplified in the Mountaineer of Sunday morning. With all their lack of principle, deficient as they are in honor and integrity, we still believed there was some restraining influence surrounding them which would serve to keep the editors of that sheet within the limits of decency. But we have been mistaken. The evidence of the most sublime impudence, the most arrant knavery, and an utter disregard of truth, appears in the editorial columns of that paper, such as we have never before witnessed.
    It leads off with an effort to implicate us in a quarrel with a city official, who is just silly enough to discover a mare's nest where none exists. Our reference to the non-return of fines was nothing more than a brief allusion to a subject which was pretty thoroughly ventilated at the last Council meeting and so ought to have received the thanks rather than the curses of this most sapient(?) judge, for the moderate and indirect way the subject was treated.
    The attack upon Judge Downing is another evidence of the fair and manly course pursued by the Mountaineer. Some months ago a personal difficulty occurred between the Judge and the proprietor of the Mountaineer, with which the public have nothing to do; and yet the columns of a public newspaper are openly prostituted to indulge a personal spleen. But the shafts were harmless.
    The climax of it's meanness however was reached, in the base and false charges made against Jas. R. Shaffer, a candidate for City Marshal. Every one who knows JIM, will bear witness to his integrity, his promptness and his courage. The breath of suspicion has never been heard against him, and, in all gentlemanly qualities, he is the superior of his calumniator. Had the malignant attack appeared in any previous issue of the Mountaineer, thus giving time and opportunity for a refutation, the meanness would have been less apparent. But these stabs are made on the eve of election, in the last issue of a newspaper before the polls are opened, and when no chance for a denial is offered. We are glad to know that Mr. E. W. Wynkoop emphatically condemns this whole proceeding. He is too much of a gentleman to lend himself to any such shameful work.

                                                                            From our Daily of April 2.

The Election.
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    The election passed off yesterday very quietly. The best of feeling prevailed at the poll, and at different times during the day when we visited them, we could discover no indications of a quarrel or wrangle. Considering the nature of this election, and the great number of candidates in the field, this result is most gratifying. The example afforded yesterday at the polls of the city of Denver, is worthy the emulation of the most orderly city in the Eastern States. Rival candidates met together in a generous struggle, and so far as we have been able to learn, nothing transpired up to the hour of closing the ballot boxes, calculated to bring any discredit on our city. We congratulate our citizens over the bright auguries of yesterday. There is an element of good order and determination to assert the true principles of government in our midst, which will soon overpower what little remains of ruffianism and rowdyism. Truth and Justice are mighty, and will prevail, no matter if for a time they are burnt down and trampled in the dust by a corrupt and overwhelming horde.(?) Violence and outrage may in inundate(?) peaceable men, and prevent them for a time from asserting their rights; but there is a point beyond which forbearance ceases to be a virtue, and that once reached, the transition(?) is as complete as it is gratifying.
    We think the silver-lining begins to tinge the cloud which in days agone has cast its shadow over our name at home and abroad. The cleansing process has been going on, slowly, it is true, but not the less surely.--There are still bad and unprincipled men in our midst, whose habits and example are pernicious, but their influence is growing "small by degrees and beautifully less," and a few months hence they will be remembered only as plague-spots which have been removed from an otherwise healthy and vigorous surface.

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OFFICIAL ELECTION RETURNS.
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North Division.

JUDGE OF APPELLATE COURT.
W. M. Slaughter76
G. W. Purkins4
SECRETARY AND CLERK.
C. H. Martin42
A. H. Mayer51
J. C. Spencer8
CITY AND PROSECUTING ATTORNEY.
J. E. Dalliba68
I. N. Bassett13
MARSHAL.
J. R. Shaffer56
E. W. Wynkoop27
TREASURER.
Thos P. Ames50
J. P. Sears, Jr.2
JUDGES COURT COMMON PLEAS.
Jno. Wanless81
A. Chapim61
J. Downing45
J. H. Sherman20
Wm. Person15
N. Sargent1
COUNCILMAN.
R. Sopris64
W. H. Laughitt(?)1
COLLECTOR.
A. B. Sopris64
ASSESSOR.
J. W. Wolf51
F. P. Aden(?)4
A. P. Aden(?)2
S. P. Aklen(?)1
STREET COMMISSIONER.
A. H. Barker?5
O. B. Totten21
Peter Doran7
J. Bryant1
CITY ENGINEER.
E. D. Boyd?1
J. M Sheafer35
J. H. Clark4
            For Amended Constitution80
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            Total Vote82

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West Division.

APPELLATE JUDGE.
Slaughter441
Purkins165
COMMON PLEAS.
Downing281
Sherman172
Person120
Wanless461
Sargent73
CLERK.
Spencer241
Mayer233
Martin134
TREASURER.
Ames477
Sears131
MARSHAL.
Wynkoop171
Shaffer450
ATTORNEY.
Dalliba251
Bassett233
ENGINEER.
Boyd267
Sheafer266
COUNCILMEN.
Bartlett271
Travilla125
Dunn177
Buttrick447
Oates568
Rasye241
Wicks212
Iddings279
ASSESSOR.
Dubler523
STREET COMMISSIONER.
Barker257
Bryant124
Peter Doran145
Totten61
Babcock33
Boath9

For Constitution538
Against Constitution1

    ----Owing to the great mixture of tickets, the canvassers in the East division are not yet through counting. We will doubtless be able to give full official returns to-morrow.


Source:

Unknown, "The Election," Weekly Rocky Mountain News, Denver, Colorado, Wednesday, 3 April, 1861, page 2.

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